id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12860 Budington, William S. To Enlarge the Sphere of Human Knowledge: The Role of the Independent Research Library 1976-07-01 17 .pdf application/pdf 9881 432 51 In the first instance, they did not qualify as educational institu- tions, despite their near-exclusive use by academic personnel; in the second in- stance, not being tax-supported disquali- fied them as public libraries, despite being accessible to the public. Of public libraries as we know them, the country's first century had none, yet the foundations were being laid. cache/crl-12860.pdf txt/crl-12860.txt